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by zzleeper 8mo ago
Thanks for the insights! I'll try Mistral as well.. Gemini worked well for me so far but which model is SOTA is changing quite frequently these days
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by zzleeper 8mo ago
That's amazing! I'm working on a kinda similar project (documenting bank runs from historical newspapers) and also opted for Claude to build a static website. Crazy that the two sites have a very similar look and feel: https:&#
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by zzleeper 8mo ago
That's actually amazing, and might give me a way to use all the cores I have lying around. 2s per page is an insane 600 pages per minute at 20 cores! Please do open source it, even if you don't do much around it (worst case I can
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by zzleeper 8mo ago
Surprisingly, I have a few hundred gigs of old newspaper scans so am very curious. How fast was it per page? Do you recall if it's CPU or GPU based? TY!
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by zzleeper 8mo ago
I just spent the last 20 minutes trying to debug why my non-www URL wasn't working and my www was. Oh well now I know.
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by zzleeper 8mo ago
I only see one redaction on page 128 (122 as in top-right of page), and it's just a URL. So there's a rule to redact URLs.
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by zzleeper 8mo ago
Do any of these models do well with information retrieval and reasoning from text? I'm reading newspaper articles through a MoE of gemini3flash and gpt5mini, and what made it hard to use open models (at the time) was a lack of support
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by zzleeper 8mo ago
Don't worry once Central Time wakes up and gets their coffee, this will get <flagged>
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by zzleeper 8mo ago
The problem is that a relatively small group of people (flaggers) just veto what we see and don't see. This made sense when we relied on flagging to just remove spam, useless posts, etc. but its now being used to remove anything that g
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by zzleeper 8mo ago
That gun looks like the extra gun one of the ICE folks have. Would you be surprised if you find out they planted it out as evidence?
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by zzleeper 8mo ago
People say there are users who don't want politics on their frontpage, but I think it's just simpler: we have a nontrivial minority of users who are pro-MAGA and like what's going on, so they downvote anything that makes Trum
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by zzleeper 10mo ago
Because that editor was installed in order to be able to censor CBS. They also bought Tiktok, and are trying to buy other media companies in order to be able to better control the flow of information.
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by zzleeper 10mo ago
Oh god, I'm sure I wouldn't come close to 50%; that's so hard to read
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by zzleeper 10mo ago
Same! I want to do some data stuff from documents and 2.0 pricing was amazing, but the constant increases go the wrong way for this task :/
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by zzleeper 10mo ago
Wait so quantum is going to actually deliver something useful within the next 10-20 years??
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by zzleeper 10mo ago
Hope they don't confuse her boat and blow her up :/
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by zzleeper 11mo ago
Love this! Would have liked to see something like textract for a pre-LLM benchmark (but of course that's expensive), and also a distinction between handwritten text and printed one. But still, this is incredibly useful!
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by zzleeper 11mo ago
A lot of comments here about how diversity is great etc etc. Yes, but also a lot of people value consistency. Now that Win10 is gone and people are reluctant to use Win11, it would be a great opportunity to switch. Yet even I am still reluc
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by zzleeper 1y ago
Same here. My three-year old loved maps and we always played with them (making map of her room, etc etc) We enrolled her at the local Montessori and she rushed to the map section but was told she is forbidden from using it until she takes t
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by zzleeper 1y ago
That kinda misses the point for me. I use LLMs a lot and have become an invaluable part of my work (coding, collecting data, proof-reading text) and even personal time (amazing Japanese menu translator!). But I still think they can "fa
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by zzleeper 1y ago
Quick q what does "yield" mean here? Also, in which currency are these returns? Because forex shifts (which for sure happened on oct10) mess up the observed returns quite a bit
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by zzleeper 1y ago
There's a lot of ways to siphon money out of firms. People declare their car as a "work vehicle", CEOs fly to the beach on the company's jet, etc. So I guess you want some level of corporate tax? (it's the same
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Scoop: Dominion Voting sold to company run by ex-GOP election official(axios.com)
11 points by zzleeper 1y ago|2 comments
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by zzleeper 1y ago
> Dominion Voting Systems — the voting machine behemoth that President Trump and his allies baselessly attacked after the 2020 election — has been sold to a Missouri-based company run by a former Republican election official, Axios has l
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by zzleeper 1y ago
Good luck; we probably crossed paths (I was helping a bit on the hiring side at some point). A postdoc is a really great option, I've seen lots of people do that before going for a bschool so it can definitely can work. BTW one other t
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by zzleeper 1y ago
Not sure prices are changed though. :/
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by zzleeper 1y ago
Three reasons IMO. 1. If you take out AI-related companies, SP500 is down YTD 2. Even then, because the exchange rate is down 10-15% against most countries, that mechanically increases the SP500 by 5-7.5% (because half of SP500 firm profits
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by zzleeper 1y ago
Remember the story of Nero watching Rome burn, and asking how could he and everyone involved be so fool? Well I'm not surprised any more. Feels like a perfectly believable story :/
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by zzleeper 1y ago
To clarify, AI investment has contributed more to GDP GROWTH than consumer spending. So they are talking about changes not levels.
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by zzleeper 1y ago
In what sense?

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